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Infographic: What Makes Someone Leave a Website?

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Curation in an Age of Information Overload

Information. There’s so much of it. What’s a teacher to do to help filter out the debris and collect the gems? One solution is Twitter lists. Set up a list of people on Twitter who say things you want your students to notice. Then go to paper.li and create an account. Set it up to [...]

Themeefy looks great for instructors

Themeefy looks great for instructors (and students who have to do a presentation). Read more about it at Digital Inspiration, where you can look at Amit’s sample about Steve Jobs. Here’s an example from the Themeefy site. It’s free. Sign up with a Twitter or Facebook login.

Guest Post: 7 Things Everyone in Your Organization Should Know

This weekend, I attended the Online News Association Conference in Boston. It was a great gathering of multimedia developers and those concerned with all things digital – quite a fantastic event. I had the opportunity to participate on a panel called “If I Were in Charge, I’d…” Proposals for the panel were solicited before the [...]

The Secret of Building a Table with Dreamweaver

It’s easy peasy to create a table in Dreamweaver. It’s not so easy to create a table in Dreamweaver that sticks to the ideal of separation of content from presentation and uses CSS rather than HTML to determine presentation. If you want to build a table for your web page that does use best practice [...]

What are you telling students about DOCTYPES?

One of the classes I’ve been teaching at UNM Continuing Ed lately is Beginning Dreamweaver. The school uses Adobe Creative Suite 4 in the lab where I teach. The DOCTYPE options in DW 4 are either transitional or strict in HTML 4/XHTML 1.0. Outside of the UNM lab, the most recent version of DW on [...]

Technology in Education at ISTE 2011

Education and Technology folks are gathered in Phildelphia this week for the 2011 conference of the ISTE. The conference is still in progress. Early blog posts about it have been very enthusiastic. ISTE is about advancing education through innovative use of technology. Image Credit: kjarrett. Can you say “excited?” EduTechGeek is excited. All I can [...]

Why, Jane McGonigal, why?

I am just getting into Jane McGonigal’s book Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How they Can Change the World. Already after just a few pages I found the answer to this problem: I call it the “Why the hell do I keep playing with her?” problem. If I could scroll through [...]

HTML/Text editor recommendations

I got this email the other day: I have a rather odd request to ask. I am trying to learn how to write web pages for fun and maybe more down the road. At present I have several different editors to choose from, and was wondering if you could give me some advice as to [...]

Free eBook on fieldset CSS

The posts here on fieldset CSS are so popular, I decided to put them all together in one PDF file and offer it as a free download. It’s a PDF file, so it isn’t perfect, but it does give you the information you may be looking for all in one place. If you have any [...]